Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hastings is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C overall, 554th of 745 graded towns in New York, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is cost of living: a typical home costs about $188K, 2.5 years of the Syracuse metro’s $75K median household income. Hastings’ average trip to work is 31 minutes, above both the New York town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Its National Register listings include Fort Brewerton and Carley's Mills Schoolhouse. Hastings's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 84% of U.S. towns.
Where Hastings beats most towns.
Where Hastings’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Hastings is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 741 in 1820, a low of 741 in 1820, 9,450 in 2010. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1860 and a map from 1905 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hastings. Close and well known come first.
20 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
16 mi LakeOnondaga Lake
36 mi National MonumentFort Stanwix National Monument78K visitors a year
21 mi State parkGreen Lakes State Park
19 mi Stadium & arenaOncenter War Memorial Arena
17 mi Stadium & arenaAlliance Bank StadiumJMA Wireless Dome: Jimhoward03, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Onondaga Lake: R. A. Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Stanwix National Monument: NPS photo, Public domain · Green Lakes State Park: Ebedgert at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Oncenter War Memorial Arena: Crazyale, Public domain · Alliance Bank Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hastings, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Hastings.
Most working residents leave Hastings for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Syracuse (17%), DeWitt (11%) and Cicero (8%).
| Hastings | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 8.9% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its public schools are run by the Central Square Central School District. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Paul V Moore High School, with 1,026 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Square Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 799 | D |
| Paul V Moore High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,026 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
The Fulton weather station, 12 miles away, records that 159 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 99% of U.S. towns.
Hastings has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. The July high in Hastings is 81°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
2.7 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. Hastings’ trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Hastings | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.9% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Goettell Community Park | — | 5 |
| 2. Lighthouse Park | 0.1 mi | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 55% of U.S. communities. Since 1993, 6 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Hastings.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Hastings beats the New York average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 9. 40% of Hastings adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Hastings | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 36% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 33% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 25% | 25% |
| What stands out | Hastings | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.6% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13.1% | 17.2% |
| More smokers | 15.7% | 11.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median sale price was $299,000 in May 2026.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
1 within 15 miles of the center of Hastings
About 4 of every 100 Hastings residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Town in New York, United States
Hastings is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. Its population was 9,450 at the 2010 census. It is named after Hastings Curtiss, a prominent citizen and member of the State Assembly in 1824. It is on the county's southern border. U.S. Route 11 and Interstate 81 pass through it.
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8 towns share a border with Hastings.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings | #554 | C | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| Clay | #302 | B | C | — | C+ | A− |
| Cicero | #289 | B | C+ | B+ | C+ | A− |
| West Monroe | #525 | C | B | — | C+ | B− |
| Schroeppel | #572 | C | C+ | — | C | B− |
| Palermo | #615 | C− | B | — | C | C |
| Parish | — | — | A− | — | C− | C+ |
| Mexico | #624 | C− | B− | — | C | B− |
Parish has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Hastings, Clay, West Monroe, Schroeppel, Palermo, Parish and Mexico report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Hastings with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Hastings grades C overall, better than 30% of U.S. towns and #554 of 745 in New York. It grades B− for health and C+ for schools.
The typical home is worth about $188,000, 64% below the New York typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
2 notable people were born here, including Albert Benjamin Prescott and Charles F. Haglin.
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